The 1890s was a significant decade for women’s equality, and girls were experiencing rapid changes in all aspects of their lives. These changes were reflected in their manuscript cultures, especially in girls’ engagement with genre and textual appropriation. In 1890s children’s manuscript magazines there is a greater freedom to engage with different kinds of fiction and other content in these magazines, such as children’s fiction and advice literature, and we see clear parodic engagements with literature. This chapter focuses on the example of the manuscript magazine the Evergreen Chain, and particularly the changing relationship to original versus derivative content in a predominantly girl-led context.